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I could probably go out on a limb and say the American variation (also known as the French variation, because they're identical after a million) if not only because Star Wars was a movie trilogy done in the US, had novels written and published in the US, and had comics done here, too. So, if only out of habit and/or lack of knowledge of there even being a difference, likely the American/French version. I don't think I've heard of anyone using the british trillion/billion in international journals and such, either, so I'm going to assume (maybe wrongfully, too) that it's just Germany and the UK that follow the powers model (e.g, 1x1012 is billion, 1x1018 is trillion, etc) versus the actual meaning of the words being used (e.g, 1x1012 is trillion because it has three sets of 0's which follow 1,000 and tri = 3.)sabrina said:
See, the thing about long vs short scale is that many of the countries is the same situation with Metric vs Imperial in the US. We are taught metric, metric is our official method of measuring things per a law passed in the 20th century before I was even born, but it never caught on. Long Scale might be "official" in a country such as France (as of 1961) but few people actually go by long scale, because everyone else uses short scale. I can't speak for Spain, because I'm unfamiliar with counting over there (even though my grandparents moved to the US from Spain), but generally people are taught both methods in the countries where it is their official counting method but one method out of the two is preferred, like in France where people just never switched back to their original long scale.sabrina said:
